The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-25
THE USES OF CoTroN-sEED OIL.
It AduIterates Lard and Enters into
Olive and Other Oils.

In view of the feet that several inter
views of a contradictory nature have
been made public within the last few
days relating to- cotton seed oil and Its
uses in lard and other manufactured
product. q Tribune reporter called upon
some of the leading firms engaged IN the
business, and in answer to inquiries con-
corning the late developments was IN
formed that Nels Morris recent state
ments that lard as now manufactured
is composed Of rs per cent. OF cotton
seed oil, 10 per cent. of stearine, and 10
per cent. of lard, " was influenced by the
TACT that he had "got left" in the deal
between Phil Armour and the Cotton
seed Trust Company. This corporation
has recently bought out Fairbank and
now controls the entire cotton belt OF the
south: Tne company is stocked at ST.
EO,OOO, with real estate and machinery
valued at from $500, 900 to S400, 900 more.
Inc company originally secured control
OF the stock at $40, which is now worth
$5l per share.
The business of making cotton-seed oil
is unlimited. 1t is believed that a ton
of cottol-seed will yield from thirty-five
to forty gallons of oil. 1t has recently
been stated by parties familiar with the
business that sou, 900 tons of seed were
crushed in the mills last year. The oil
product was therefore from II 500, 0On to
10000 600 gallons. Mr.. Armour is ere
died with using one-6fth of this
amount, or from 3 ,500,0U0 to 600, 900
gallons. Three or four years ago the
president of the then existing Crusher
Association declared that one pound of
cotton-seed oil would ''go as far as one
and one-quarter pounds of lard" It is
much cheaper than lard. In the calen-
dar year 1886 there was exported from
this country 6 $4,000 gallons of this oil,
valued at little less than 40 cents gal.
lon. A large part of the oil exported is
said to come back to US in the form of
olive oil. called. 1t appears that Ar
mour and the exporters take about one
half of the entire product. a large
quantity is also used by other manufac
turers of lard who compete with Ar
mour.& Co. In the manufacture of or
binary refined lard from 5 to 20 per
cent. of cotton-seed oil is used. The
proportion varies according to the 10
cality to which it is to be shipped. If
too large proportion of cotton-seed Oil
is used, the softness would have to- be
overcome by the use of steariRe. 1t is
claimed that 80 per cent. is about all the
cotton.seed oil that can be used in the
manufacture of lard, and this proper
ton of oil would, of course, necessitate
a larger amount of stearine. In addi-
ton to its large consumption in the
manufacture of lard, it is also extern
sively used in the manufacture of soaps,
cheese, miners oils, and to adulterate
other oils. The merchants of the cheese
trade declare that this adulteration in
juriously affects our export trade. the
quantity of cheese exported having
fallen from 147 1896, GA pounds in 1881 to
so, 363, 6S5 pounds in 1886. 1t is authori-
tatively stated that only one-sixth of
the cotton-seed of last years crop was
crushed in the factories. The consump-
ton OF cotton-seed oil has increased
enormously within few years, and &C
cording to statistics given is capable of
still further expansion.-Chicago Tri-
bune.